Ecstatic Gate Keepers: Conversations With Our Ancestors is a weekend intensive for queer men (men who love men: gay, bisexual and transgendered men who identify as gay) to explore more deeply an erotic spiritual path, while building a more loving community.

Ecstatic Gate Keepers:
Conversations With Our Ancestors

May 7th-10th, 2009,
Saratoga Springs, CA

Hunter Flournoy	Dan Newman	Kirk Prine
Hunter is a teacher in the Toltec Eagle Knight lineage of Don Miguel Ruiz, a shamanic healer in the lineage of Rebecca Crystal, and a pastor for Amigos de Dios, a fellowship of Christian mystics. He is also a psychotherapist. He integrates his experience in creative writing, storytelling, the Lakota Sweat Lodge and years of experience learning from indigenous spiritual elders, healers and shamans into his work.	PhD, DD, CT is a holistic health consultant, Native American practitioner, artist, safer sex educator and holistic workshop facilitator. Dan has been assisting in Flesh & Spirit work since it's inception in Cincinnati, Ohio. www.Ceucert.com	(formerly a psychotherapist) is an integrative bodyworker, Reiki Master and facilitator of Flesh & Spirit Community. He has a BA in Theology, with a focus on healing practices across many spiritual traditions; a M.Ed., and Ed.D. in counseling, specializing in behavioral medicine, sexuality and group work. Kirk is committed to building queer men's community with a new consciousness.

As queer men and queer people we know about the connections "between". Between flesh and spirit, this world and the next, masculine and feminine, peace and conflict, joy and sorrow are just a few bridges we have spanned. The ecstatic path through our bodies, through the earth and through our hearts has been the way of many of our queer ancestors. May 7th-10th, 2009on the land of Saratoga Springs we will explore remembering and re-visioning with our ancestors what Ecstatic Gate keeping means to us today personally and as a community.

We will use stories, sociological perspectives, breath, sound/chant, ritual, intentional touch, taoistic/tantric erotic massage, gestalt dialoguing, intuitive impressions and group process to create an atmosphere of ecstasy to listen to the pulse of our ancestors.

Our queer histories as gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgendered is often omitted from the archives, or even more often ideas depicted with negative interpretations. In Ecstatic Gate Keeper: Conversations With Our Ancestors we will celebrate our queer ancestral heritage from every tribe and every nation.

At the Creating Change Conference Harry Hay, before he died, spoke reminding us of the biologist Thomas Huxley's words nearly a century ago. Huxley said, No negative trait (one that does not reproduce) ever continues to appear in a given species millennia after millennia after millennia unless it in some way serves the survival of the species. We are a people of purpose both individually and as a tribe. Invoking the wisdom of our queer ancestors can assist us in knowing better who we are and provide hints to where we are going.

In many cases healing wounds from our biological, national, and religious ancestors is a significant task. Yet, in each of these lineages there are blessings as well as curses. In our work in this intensive our invocation is to let go of the curses and welcome and reclaim the blessings of these past generations. Through our work together we are welcoming the thoughts, ideas energies and wisdoms that are loving and kind to us as a queer tribe of men.